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The annual meeting of this society was held on the 1st June, at noon, in the Temperance Hall, when the following report for the tenth year, ending 31st March, 1882, was submitted to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →LONDON, May 28.—Great fires have taken place in Leadville, Colorado, and Arizona, in the United States. The damage is esttmated at a millon of dollars…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The annual report of superintendent Charles Bown to the board of management of the Associated Insurance Companies Fire Brigade has been issued, showing in detail the work done during the year ending 31st…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The city coroner was informed yesterday that a fire of my[?]cious origin be taken place at the residence of a labourer named Robert Burman, in Osborne-street, Ma[?]. There was no person residing on the…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LONDON, June 8.—A great fire has taken place at Lavaur, in France. Some naphtha became ignited, and a large amount of property was gutted before the flames could be…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The usual monthly meeting of the No. 3 Volunteer Fire Brigade was held at their head station. Bathurst-street, on Tuesday evening last. Mr. W. T. Kelly, superintendent, occupied the chair. About 30…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The Surry Hills Fire Company, working under Mr.Superintendent Bown, chief officer of the Metropolitan Associated Fire Brigades, having secured on eligible site at No. 306, Palmer-street. have erected a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →THE Fire Brigades Demonstration at Melbourne on Queen's Birthday was a most imposing affair; the number of people assembled to witness the sight was enormous. The windows of the various business…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →A dinner was given at Mr. W.S. Kelly's Exchange Hotel on Wednesday, by the city members of the No 8 Volunteer Fire Brigade to their members in the competing team at the late Melbourne Fire…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →A fire broke out about half-past 9 o'clock last night on the premises of Messrs. J. L. Tillock and Co., wholesale grocers of George-street, but fortunately little damage was done, in consequence of the fire…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The first anniversary of the South Sydney Volunteer Fire Brigade, No 4, was celebrated last night by a dinner, which was held at the Agricultural Hotel, corner of Pitt and Campbell streets. The room was prettily decorated with…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Shortly after midnight Mrs. Mitchell, who keeps a registry office on the Canterbury-road, Peteraham, discovered from the smoke that filled her bedroom for she had retired to rest that the place was on…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →The building formerly known as Nelson's store, now occupied by W. Booth, was destroyed by fire, this morning, between 4 and 5 o'clock. The building is insured in the United Insurance, and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →LONDON, June 8.—A great fire has taken place at Lavaur, in France. Some naphtha became ignited, and a large amount of property was gutted before the flames could be…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →The first anniversary of the South Sydney Vol. Fire Brigade, No. 4, was celebrated on Tuesday night by a dinner, which was held at the Agricultural hotel, Haymarket. The room was tastefully…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At Birmingham Police Court on Tuesday, April 11 John Pile rope and twine manufacturer, was charged with a terrible assault on his wife. Evidence was given that the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE most disastrous fire that ever occurred" in Aberdeen broke out last night, and resulted in the complete destruction of the market buildings, the most extensive of the kind in the north…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →ABOUT 2 o'clock this morning a fire broke out in the premises belonging to Mrs. Piper, in Phillip-street, Balmain, under very mysterious circumstances. The fire seemed to have originated in a window in the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →About half-past, 5 o'clock this morning, Special-constable Harper, who is night watchman in front of the General Post-office, noticed smoke coming from the direction of the railway booking office next door,…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →FOR the last few weeks, Mr. Lysaght, the licensee of the Royal Standard Hotel at the corner of George and Liverpool streets, has been annoyed ts well as all his family, by an escape of gas, and last evening,…
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